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Disney Chairman Bob Iger is leaving the company at the end of the month. Iger sat down for an exclusive interview with CNBC’s David Faber in which he noted that he never spoke with Steve Jobs about a potential merger of Apple and Disney, but he believes the deal likely would have “gotten there” had…
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Apple is in the process of building a new team of engineers for a new office in Southern California to develop wireless chips that could eventually replace components supplied by Broadcom, Skyworks Solutions, and Qualcomm. Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News: The company is seeking a few dozen people to develop wireless chips in Irvine, where…
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Joel Podolny, the longtime dean of Apple University, the company’s in-house management training school, left Apple earlier this year to join a startup, Bloomberg News reports citing “people with knowledge of the matter.” Apple Park in Cupertino, California Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News: Podolny had run the program since early 2009, when he was hired…
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26 years ago, the initial public offering of Pixar made Steve Jobs, who owned upward of 80% of the company, a billionaire. The Steve Jobs Building at Pixar Luke Dormehl for Cult of Mac: After the windfall, one of the first people Jobs calls is his friend, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, already a member of…
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In 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demanded — not asked — that Tony Fadell join the company to create a groundbreaking new device, but the man who would go on to become known as “The Father of the iPod” initially balked at the idea. “I was like, ‘whoa whoa,’” Fadell tells CNET’s Roger Cheng during…
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Snap on Thursday fell short of Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue as the owner of photo messaging app Snapchat said Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework to protect user privacy hurt Snap’s ability to target and measure its digital advertising. Sheila Dang for Reuters: Shares of Snap dropped 25% in trading after the bell. The…
On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he’d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, “What would I do? I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.” For…
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Steve Jobs Today marks the 10th anniversary of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ death. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California home on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. He died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side. His sister, writer Mona Simpson,…
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Months before Apple’s iPhone went on sale in June 2007, a little after Steve Jobs unveiled the “Jesus Phone” in January 2007, Apple’s CEO paid a visit to The Wall Street Journal‘s headquarters, packed more than two dozen editors and reporters to offer a sneak peek, when someone asked about its durability. Apple’s revolutionary iPhone…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook will this week collect the 10th and final tranche of the pay deal, worth some $750 million, that he received a decade ago after he became the company’s CEO. Apple CEO Tim Cook Cook has been the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. since August 24, 2011. Cook previously served as…
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